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February 19, 2025

Top U.S. Prosecutor Resigns over "Politically Driven" Request to Investigate Biden Climate Grants
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A senior U.S. prosecutor resigned Tuesday to protest what she called a
politically driven investigation into the Biden administration's climate
policies. Denise Cheung, the top criminal prosecutor in the Washington,
D.C., office, wrote in her resignation letter that she had refused an
unreasonable request made by Emil Bove, Trump's former personal attorney
who's now acting U.S. deputy attorney general, to bring criminal charges
over Biden-era grants by the EPA to nonprofit groups.


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